It’s bright and sunny and warm. So
nice. We need to mow our lawn soon. It’s… a little tall. It must be
like a jungle to Fumiko. 
Who is currently asleep on my lap. She’s getting her back teeth in,
which has been very interesting. She has days full of pain and
frustration and other days where she’s happy as a lark. Today is a
happy day. Thank goodness. She’s been having trouble with her ears off
and on since her back teeth started coming in. She’s also been having
issues with fevers off and on. Poor thing. At least the top right one
is almost in, and the top left one is about half way in. I haven’t seen
any on the bottom yet. Hopefully they either come in soon, or they give
her some time before they start coming in.
She’s learning very well. She’s too smart. When it’s time go pick
Kai up from work, I tell her it’s time to go get daddy, so she runs
over and turns the tv off and grabs her hello kitty bunny or her other
bunny and waits for me at the stairs. The other night I jokingly told
her to go get me a diaper… she went over to the diapers and got one.
She didn’t bring it to me, but she got one. She also loves salad. I
mean loves salad. She’d rather eat salad over anything else.
She picks all the veggies out of anything she’s eating and either eats
them first or only eats them. Now if only I could get Sascha to do
that… He’s doing better though. I didn’t have to bug him about eating
his salad the other day. Which is a huge improvement to only getting
him to eat the lettuce and tomato in my home made taco’s. Hopefully
Fumiko is rubbing off on his eating habits at least.
Sascha’s losing all of his teeth and getting in new teeth that he’s
very proud of. He’s also starting to grow up and become self conscious.
Which is slightly amusing. Recently he came out of the bathroom with no
towel after a bath. He completely freaked out when Fumiko saw him. He
started crying and yelling and telling her not to look at him. I think
that’s the first time I’ve ever seen him embarrassed. I’ve noticed he’s
stopped coming out of the bathroom after a bath/shower undressed. He’s
getting dressed in the bathroom or wrapping the towel around him to go
to his room. He’s also leaving his pants on more. I’m constantly having
to tell him to put his pants back on. He’s starting to grow up! Kai’s
been riding his bike with him, which he’s thoroughly enjoying. He’s
started the “I don’t want to go to school because I’m bored in class”
thing already. Which is just as well I guess. We’re going to be putting
him in homeschooling for the next year. We can’t afford to keep him in
the Portland Waldorf School. We’re so far behind it’s not funny.
They’ve been gracious enough to keep him in school even though we can’t
pay.
They understand our situation and are working with us. Honestly
they’ve helped Sascha so much. I’m really grateful for his teachers
there. Because of them he adjusted so well to school. Though because
they teach so differently from regular schools we’ve decided it’s in
Sascha’s best interest to at least home school him for a year to catch
him up to normal standards, and then decide if we want to put him in a
local public school or continue homeschooling him. I wonder if Sascha
is going to be one of those kids who prefers doing school at home so he
can get his studies done and then do whatever he enjoys, or if he’s
going to want to go back to a school and be around other kids. We shall
see. I’ve noticed that he’s completely stopped playing with the little
boy things he’s been playing with and is only interested in what we are
doing, or what “teenagers” are doing. I seriously wonder if he’s going
to go through puberty early?
He recently punched his sister. 
My dad and step mom sent him those hulk gloves. The ones where when you
hit something they make noises. Well up until recently he was doing
fine with them. We’d remind him every so often not to hit anyone with
them and he didn’t. However last week-ish he out of no where hauled off
and punched his sister in the face with them. It wasn’t a light hit
either. He used all of his body weight and knocked her over. I’m not
sure who was more shocked… Fumiko or us. Kai took the gloves away and
immediately trashed them sent Sascha to his room. I grabbed Fumiko who
was hysterical and her face was all swollen. Kai went and talked to
Sascha who didn’t feel bad at all. He said he was just playing with
her. It still hasn’t registered. Even with the bruise he left on her
face. I don’t know. But I told my parents not to buy him anymore toys
like that because he’s obviously not old enough for self control yet.
After that happened he decided he wasn’t going to mind us anymore. So
he started completely ignoring us when we told him to do something. So
I sent him to my moms for a few days. Which actually helped all of us.
Fumiko settled down, Sascha settled down and I got a tiny break.
When they are together they amp each other up. When one screams the
other screams, they end up chasing each other around the house getting
louder and louder. When they are separate they are both pretty calm.
They can sit down and play by themselves or sit and watch a show on tv.
They don’t scream aren’t that loud and they’re just calm and relaxed.
But together they are like a thunder storm. 
I wish they could fnd a happy medium. lol or I’m going to have to start
sending Sascha to his room and Fumiko to hers so I can settle down.
Kai and I are good. We’re just doing whatever it is we do. Kai lost
an employee at work, so it’s just him and one other person for the
moment. So his schedule is slightly messed up. I have been helping my
mom out when I can. She had a heart attack not too long ago and her
health hasn’t been getting much better. Her husband has been going in
for tests and such for his dementia. That is what it is. It’s not easy
on either of them but they are at least trying to work through it
instead of my mom just running away because she can’t deal with it.
It’s been very peaceful here(outside of the children) with her staying
with her husband again. So there’s much less turmoil between Kai and I.
Since most of the fights we had were involving my mom. 
So yes we have been doing well. 
We are both really looking forward to hopefully being able to move
to California. We’ll see how things work out. We really don’t know what
to do. I keep bugging Kai to talk to his grandfather, and mom. 
But he’s stubborn. There’s no way we’d be able to rent without a
cosigner. So we need to find another way. At the moment though we are
doing good just paying our monthly bills. We ended up owing more than
we are getting back on taxes. So we are currently waiting for our tax
refund so we can pay our taxes. Ugghh. But things will work out. They
always do. We just have to be patient. My step mom is also having
health issues. 
They think she may have cancer. I actually need to call her later today
to see what she found out. I hope it’s not cancer. I hope they actually
found out what is wrong this time. I have to get ready to go get Kai
from work soon. And need to stop off some where and get Fumiko some
straw cups. Last few times I’ve tried to get her one they were out.
Boo.